Fitting the neck part II

The grain direction is pretty annoying. I figured that the best was to go across the chain carefully. At least for the bulk of the material. The fine tuning can be done with a file. I hope. I went as far as I dared today with out checking the orientation or projected height of the fingerboard etc. I still have enough wood all around the mortise to make sure the neck can be fitted as required.

I noticed the problem with the block grain direction already when shaping the blocks. At the time it wasn't too much of an issue as I could shape the blocks from the the other side then. This is different now since the button on the back prevents me from coming with the chisel from the right direction. In fact I'm quite happy how few mistakes I've made until now. Well, ones I am aware of in any case.